Manitou Asinîy and the Strategies of Systemic Colonial Injustice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Manitou Asinîy, known to the Nêhiyawak (Four Spirit/Plains Cree) as the Man from the Sky, is a living Sacred Being that can heal all who come to him. To the Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) he is a 320 lb (145 kg) Group IIIAB medium octahedrite iron meteorite ( Scott et al., 1973 ). Through the autoethnography of myself, Dr. Paulina Johnson, who attended to Manitou Asinîy at the RAM, I address two strategies of systemic colonial injustice: (1) Classifying and (2) Fatiguing by Delay used by the RAM, the Government of Alberta (GoA), and the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to maintain possession and control. This case study examines how whiteness and settler colonialism are deeply rooted in colonial institutions and systems to ensure that Indigenous voices and representations are silenced or forced to compliance. This case study is aimed to address how the politics of refusal to be silenced allows for Indigenous resurgence and a recentering of self as an Indigenous woman.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.052 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".